Word: suchness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THE ALGERIAN WAR jarred the students out of their slumber and acquiescence to adult organizations. Outraged with colonial atrocities students roared out into the streets daily. New groups proliferated with the most militant and politically conscious such as Jeune Resistance, Mouvement Anti-Colonialiste Francais, and Groupe Nizan secretly helping the...
What enabled the revolt to break out so quickly and brutally was the rigidity of the university structure, which knew only one way of change-rupture. The government and not the faculty controls the university. They decide everything from how much money is spent to what time the classes are...
But the whole movement could have been stopped if the faculty and administration had not reacted to the provocation of the students with such equivocation. Bewildered and angry with no precedent to guide them, they frantically applied stop-gap measures. Wooing the students one week and calling in the cops...
Since April, most reform efforts have focused on restructuring the University. These efforts will probably not bear fruit for some time to come. Yet in the meantime, issue of both political and educational nature remain of concern to at least a sizable portion of the student body. The danger of...
To further represent all points of view within each constituency, elections of each group's representatives should not be held along essentially artificial lines such as the Houses, but at large, under a proportional representation (PR) system. With a carefully designed PR system, each committee would be as close to...